You will need to use information learned in this unit as well as conducting outside research online or in a textbook. in a few paragraphs (about 200-300 words), describe the problems that caused the decline of the roman empire. also, explain what the leadership could have done to prevent the fall of the empire. your essay needs to have an introduction answering the prompt above, a couple of body paragraphs which uses facts and information to back up your claim/answer, and a conclusion paragraph.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

Amaze i know not these my hands and yet i think there was a woman like me once had hands like these. -adelaide what type of poem is "amaze"? a. diamante b. american cinquain c. japanese cinquain d. modern cinquain

Namerican born chinese, the main characters, the monkey king, danny, and jin wang have conflict because they: